We are Many...They are few

1819..at the start of the Occupy Movement  

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'

......The Masque of Anarchy by Percy Bysshe Shelley. written 

to commemorate massacre carried out by the British Government 

of their own people at Peterloo, Marlborough, England in 1819. 

Masses of poverty-stricken, starving & homeless citizens stood 

together passive and unresisting in a field in Peterloo to protest 

their condition in Dickensonian England. The Government sent armed 

troops against them to break them up, but the citizens stood their 

ground and did not resist the attacks. They stood arm in arm and 

silent against their attackers as many were killed. The military 

finally refused to continue attacking their own people.  

If you have interest in reading the whole Epic Poem you can find 

it here: 

http://www.artofeurope.com/shelley/she5.htm